League Prize 2015: Authenticity

Landing Studio focuses on “developing design tactics for positively integrating active global industries and infrastructures into their local contexts.”

Besler describes her work as “referencing and reusing things that are already in circulation,” which she then seeks to “refit into a slightly different framework.”

mcdowellespinosa is concerned with the “transformation of waste, excess, and the ordinary into new spatial and material realities."

Thom Moran’s work focuses on “using humor to investigate the relationships between architecture, environments and objects.”

First Office covers a variety of scales, from furniture design to building headquarters, landscape interventions, and conceptual installations.

Endemic engages the term’s definition “concerning context, language, and material sensibilities...by making contact with fundamental, cross-cultural conversations."

Erin Besler, founder of Besler & Sons, considers the relationship between architecture and building.

First Office explores new ways of thinking about architectural production and tools.

Landing Studio explores the potential of industrial zones to “inject fascinating moments back into the city.”

Thom Moran uses strangeness and humor to critique architectural practice and investigate underexplored ideas.

Working from two different locations, the founders of mcdowellespinosa take advantage of their “opposing, complementary viewpoints.”

Clark Thenhaus tests form-making strategies by combining and recontextualizing standard geometries to produce unfamiliar forms.

June 23, 2015

June 25, 2015